BEIJING — China's leader, Xi Jinping, pledged to send more medical experts to Italy this week, on the same day Beijing sent 2,000 rapid diagnostic tests to the ...
While the world fights the coronavirus pandemic, China is fighting a propaganda war. Beijing's war aim is simple: shift away from China all blame for the ...
Having bungled the start of the coronavirus outbreak, then apparently muscling its own epidemic into control, China is now mounting a full-on misinformation ...
China on Tuesday escalated its tit-for-tat propaganda war with the United States over who's to blame for the spread of the coronavirus by placing restrictive ...
China's crackdown on journalists from The Times and other American news organizations is an unfortunate echo of the Cold War, and it couldn't come at a ...
At least 475 additional people died from the coronavirus in Italy Wednesday, marking a 19 percent spike within the last 24 hours, raising the nationwide death ...
Italy plans to rush 10000 student doctors set to graduate this year into *service* without taking the final exams typically required beforehand amid the coronavirus ...
The Trump administration is reportedly planning to turn back all asylum-seekers at both the northern and southern borders over concerns regarding the ...
The administration, citing the coronavirus threat to detention facilities, plans to turn back all undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers to Mexico.
An emergency proposal to protect the American people from the coronavirus by quickly sending illegal immigrants and asylum seekers who cross our southern ...
President Donald Trump confirmed he's planning to bar entry to migrants illegally crossing the US southern border, including those seeking asylum, in a bid to ...
Russian media have deployed a "significant disinformation campaign" against the West to worsen the impact of the coronavirus, generate panic and sow distrust ...
President Trump on Wednesday announced that he is invoking the Defense Production Act as part of the administration's efforts to tackle the coronavirus ...
President Donald Trump said during Wednesday's White House press briefing that he will be invoking the Defense Production Act to help make up for potential ...
U.K. officials on Wednesday announced that all schools will be closed indefinitely starting Friday in response to the coronavirus that took an additional 32 lives.
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said schools will close from Friday, increasing restrictions on the British population as the country grapples with a spiraling ...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday that the United States and Canada had agreed to close their 5,500-mile border to “all nonessential ...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced plans to roll out a fiscal package worth 3% of Canada's economy as it grapples with fallout from the coronavirus ...
The United States border with Canada will temporarily close to "non-essential traffic" due to the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump and Prime ...
Governments are grappling with how to implement border closures, travel restrictions and lockdowns that have caused transportation chaos and imperiled ...
The coronavirus outbreak has laid bare not only the deficiencies of the federal government, but it has destroyed also whatever remained of the facade of ...
The total number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus worldwide has now surpassed 200000, according to Johns Hopkins University, while the death toll ...
The number of confirmed coronavirus infections topped 200000, more than doubling in two weeks, as countries escalated their response to the spread with ...
Idris Elba addressed critics who thought his wife, Sabrina Dhowre Elba, should not have been with him as he announced in a video message that he tested ...
The Trump administration's sped-up war on the coronavirus, 43 moves so far, is aimed at reaching the highest recovery rate possible and even matching that of ...
Dozens of people from their 50s to their 90s have died in the United States after contracting the novel coronavirus and the death toll continues rising. At least 112 ...
Dozens of people from their 50s to their 90s have died in the United States after contracting the novel coronavirus and the death toll continues rising.
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen (pictured in Brussels yesterday) admitted in an interview that the virus 'will keep us busy for a long time'.
BRUSSELS is desperately working to open its borders after it emerged Poland had shut its borders and effectively cut off the Baltic states from the rest of Europe.
The European Union has formally agreed to temporarily close its external borders to all "non-essential" travel from third nations, as the bloc hopes to put out ...
WASHINGTON — From its inception, the Trump campaign has viewed its role as amplifying whatever the president says. But that role has been complicated by ...
(CNN) President Donald Trump wants to be appreciated. "We've done a fantastic job," he said Tuesday of his administration's response to the coronavirus ...
None of the crises surrounding President Donald Trump over the past three years has been as calamitous as the one he now faces. Impeachment was largely a ...
WASHINGTON — President Trump has brought great disruption to many aspects of his office, but there has been one, unaltered constant: his rallies. In dozens ...
The State Department on Wednesday announced it is slapping new sanctions on Iran as renewed rocket attacks have been launched at U.S. forces in Iraq by ...
Two more rockets rained down in Iraq on Tuesday, prolonging a period of particularly violent unrest among soldiers, militias and militants with competing ...
Israel's prime minister has shut down the courts and ordered the government to track people by their cellphone data in the name of fighting an epidemic.
JERUSALEM — Efforts to revive Israel's parliament after a year of political limbo stumbled Wednesday as opposition leaders and members of the ruling Likud ...
Confirmed coronavirus cases in Israel have jumped by 40 percent to 427 in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday, predicting a steeper rise ...
Hospitals are holding back from ordering more medical ventilators because of the high cost for what may be only a short-term spike in demand from the ...
Amid growing fears that the United States could face a shortage of ventilators for coronavirus patients, state officials and hospitals are quietly preparing to make ...
Hawaii hospitals could be under tremendous strain as more patients diagnosed with the new coronavirus and other serious medical conditions inundate medical ...
London (CNN Business) European governments are writing blank checks to protect businesses and workers from the deep recession into which the global ...
At noon today, as France slipped into confinement, I looked down from my balcony at the street below. A few people were riding bikes or walking. At the ...
In places like Paris, which have privileged the I.R.L. over the URL, might this withdrawal from public life amount to a forced taste of something dangerous?
All health professionals in France are expected to be supplied with respiratory masks in the next two days, the French health minister said on Tuesday, after the ...
At least eight coronavirus cases have been linked to three Queens churches — including a lay minister who handed out Holy Communion, church officials have ...
Scotland's main Churches say only close family will be allowed to attend funerals from this week. Guidance issued from both the Church of Scotland and the ...
What's the latest COVID-19 news in Florida? Miami-Dade and Broward County now make up almost half of the state's coronavirus cases. And the Miami Heat ...
Flipper is marking his territory. As humans stay indoors to socially distance and flatten the curve of the coronavirus pandemic, dolphins are abound in the canals ...
Venice's usually murky waterways are clear enough to see the schools of fish under the water with white swans also roaming the canals in a city where usually ...
The waters of Venice's famous canals have cleared for the first time in years amid a decline in pollution as the city locks down to stop the spread of coronavirus.
Irish bars around the Big Apple faced an unprecedented reality Tuesday on St. Patrick's Day -- normally one of the biggest drinking days of the year -- amid the ...
Bill Gates, who last week said he's stepping down from the board of Microsoft to devote more time to philanthropy, told Reddit users on Wednesday that the ...
In a 2015 talk Bill Gates warned of a potential global deadly flu outbreak eerily similar to Coronavirus. He then shared practical way to avoid a pandemic. CEOs ...
Less than two years before the coronavirus pandemic claimed thousands of lives globally, sent markets plummeting, and upended day-to-day life for virtually ...
Friedrich Merz, one of the most likely candidates to take over the leadership of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday said that the coronavirus posed the greatest threat to the nation since the end of World War II in a video ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday urged all German citizens to help fight the spread of the coronavirus by sticking to rules aimed at reducing direct social ...
Angela Merkel urged Germans to heed the stringent confinement measures imposed this week as the number of infections soared over 11000 today, including ...
The first known dog that tested positive for the novel coronavirus, a 17-year-old Pomeranian, has died in Hong Kong, according to a local media report.
The first known dog to test positive for the coronavirus has died in Hong Kong after apparently recovering for the disease, according to a local report.
HONG KONG—Tucked away in a park here, near a spiraling observation tower and an aviary teeming with exotic birds, is a monument of thin white pillars, metal ...
On the night of March 3rd, before going to bed, a crew member aboard the Grand Princess—a cruise ship owned by Carnival, the largest cruise operator in the ...
The CDC allowed passengers from the MSC Meraviglia cruise ship to disembark in Miami without any screening, Miami-Dade county said. A former passenger ...
In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak and social distancing, tens of millions of Americans are working at home while also dealing with kids who are out of ...
Brazil confirmed its first coronavirus-related death on Tuesday as its President Jair Bolsonaro continued to call efforts to mitigate the outbreak as "hysteria."
The Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald called Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's physical interactions with a crowd of supporters Sunday “virtually ...
RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil will seek authorization for a state of emergency to allow it to scrap fiscal targets and free up funds to combat the ...
As the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the world, I and others working to fight TB have growing anxiety about what this pandemic will do to a much ...
Former Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., was sentenced on Tuesday to 11 months in prison and three years of supervised probation after pleading guilty to a single ...
Former U.S. congressman Duncan D. Hunter — the California Republican who won reelection while under federal indictment, only to later admit wrongdoing in ...
Former Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter was sentenced Tuesday to 11 months in prison and three years of parole for corruption charges stemming from his ...
This is CNBC's live blog covering all the latest news on the coronavirus outbreak. All times below are in Eastern time. This blog will be updated throughout the ...
Iran has backed China's calls to investigate yet unfounded claims of the United States being the origin of the new coronavirus as an international blame game ...
Washington (CNN) At midnight Monday, the United States will implement a new slate of travel restrictions to combat coronavirus spread, limiting transit from the ...
Because large events can fuel the spread of the disease, the CDC said gatherings of 50 people or more should be canceled or postponed throughout the ...
Travelers returning from Europe stood in line for hours in crowded terminals after the Trump administration announced the health checks with little warning.
Chad Wolf (left), the acting secretary of Homeland Security, did not rule out a domestic travel ban and claimed that wait times at most of the 13 airports accepting ...
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is calling on his country to hastily build a “modern general hospital” to “better protect the precious health and safety of our ...
North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un admitted the country lacked modern medical facilities in a rare assessment of its system and said improving its health care ...
North Korea claims it has no coronavirus cases, even as its border neighbor China has experienced more than 3200 deaths from the virus. Experts have called ...
NORTH Korea's ongoing insistence it has zero cases of coronavirus has been branded 'impossible' by a former CIA analyst who says Supreme Leader Kim ...
NORTH Korea bizarrely boasts it has NO cases of coronavirus - despite bordering two of the hardest hit countries on the planet. Kim Jong-un brags a strict ...
As the coronavirus spreads, Asian countries that were first hit with the disease as it migrated from China are bracing for another wave of infections as their ...
Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer statue has withstood the worst of what the elements could muster for nearly nine decades. Now it, too, is succumbing to ...
Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer statue closed to the public at day-end Tuesday and will remain closed for at least a week to contain the spread of the new ...
Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer statue closed at the end of the day Tuesday, after Brazil's Chico Mendes Institute ordered the closure of all national parks it ...
RIO DE JANEIRO — Since the outbreak of the new coronavirus, nations have begun imposing travel restrictions and closing their borders to contain the ...
I arrived in Rio de Janeiro on Friday night, and in our Uber from the airport to our Airbnb, the driver apologised. It was going to take longer than usual - we were ...
Funeral directors were urged by federal health officials on Monday to livestream future services to comply with restrictions against large gatherings as a result of ...
As the coronavirus claims more lives in the United States and around the world, funerals are increasingly being live streamed as a safety precaution against ...
As the number of lives claimed by the novel coronavirus continues to rise, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging Americans and the ...
Funeral directors are considering streaming burials over Facebook for the families of coronavirus victims as part of measures discussed with government officials ...
The coronavirus has brought mass graves, devastated families and a change to Islamic burial rituals in Iran. The pandemic is changing how Iranians live and ...
The White House warned Wednesday that millennials may show a “disproportionate” number of positive coronavirus cases and that reports coming from Europe ...
A top doctor assisting the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic said there will be a large spike in confirmed coronavirus cases in the next few days as ...
